Author: Genna Rivieccio
Sexual Assault Sleuthing Doesn’t Always Lead to Ego Death: I May Destroy You
Just when you thought millennials might have been finito with bum-rushing the spotlight to secure their “me me me” place in the sun, Michaela Coel [Read More…]
Brightest Blue Is the Warmest Color
Maybe there’s something to the fact that Ellie Goulding looks an awful lot like Lana Del Rey on her latest album, Brightest Blue. After all, [Read More…]
#FindSomethingNew: Better If Imagined As A Sexual Exploration Campaign Called #TrySomethingNew
As Ivanka Trump continues to shill Goya products for no benefit other than to 1) assure us we’re in an endless episode of Twin Peaks [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
Dua Lipa’s “Hallucinate” Video Conjures Visions of Madonna’s “Dear Jessie”
At the end of 1989, Europeans were treated to a fourth single from Madonna’s Like A Prayer album, an unusual-for-her-style number called “Dear Jessie.” With [Read More…]
13 Reasons Why Season 4: Degrassi Meets 90210 Meets An Almost Thankfulness That School Is Now Remote
Of course, looking back at any high school show now, the problems that stemmed from being among people (all unavoidable assholes, especially with the strange [Read More…]
Katy Perry’s “Smile”: No Lily Allen’s “Smile”
As Katy Perry gradually regains all of her confidence back after the critical massacre of her 2017 album, Witness, yet another single slated for what [Read More…]
Among the Wreckage: Kim Petras in the “Broken Glass” Video
As snow cascades down over a tire in the opening scene to the latest single from Kygo featuring Kim Petras, “Broken Glass,” Griffin Stoddard’s dramatic [Read More…]
All Superheroes Wear Capes: Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Walter Mercado was in the business of psychic energy before it was a co-optable millennial trend. Shit, even before Miss Cleo made it to TV. [Read More…]
The Old Guard: Death Becomes Her But With Purer Intentions
The ennui–the sheer “I’ve seen it all” aura–that goes with the territory of living for “too long” (which, yes, is very much a thing) already [Read More…]